Some of you have been looking for this information for a loong time. Well here it is. As many you know the data pre 1994 and post 1997 is not necessarily the same and I decided not to include 1995 to 1997 at all due to well known issues with those years.
1962- 1,234
1963- 1,491
1964- 1,466
Canadians: He does you proud!
We’ve all heard about Shiprider and the expectation of US police on our soil. Here’s the latest from the CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/07/10/cross-border-policing-integration-sovereignty.html
RCMP Supt. Warren Coons, director of the Integrated Border Enforcement Teams, stressed that the cross-designated American officers “have to be under the direction and control of a Canadian law enforcement officer” when the vessel crosses into Canadian waters. Similarly, Canadian officers are under the direction of the U.S. Coast Guard officer if they enter U.S. territory.
“Sovereignty is something I take very seriously, and I understand the concerns that Canadian citizens have, because quite frankly I had those same concerns, and so do the U.S. officers,” Coons said. “But having said that, safeguards are in place to ensure that U.S law enforcement officers are not allowed to conduct law enforcement activity in Canada unless they’re strictly under the direction and control of Canadian law enforcement officers.”
I haven’t competely reviewed everything in here but I wanted to get it posted as soon as possible. It is NOT necessarily all good news. Post will be edited accordingly as I figure out more.
http://www.fordham.edu/law/faculty/colon/INTLTAX/rr92-109.htm
The video is not embeddable; you’ll have to watch it over on NBC’s site. You can also check out Phil’s post on it. The somber-faced newsreader begins by intoning:
00:00/Announcer: While many Americans are struggling to make ends meet, there is a growing trend among some of America’s ultra-wealthy: they are willing to give up their U.S. citizenship, in many cases to save money in taxes.
Clearly if two people renouncing citizenship are ultra-wealthy, then all 1,800 must be!
Cartoon by Randall Munroe/xkcd.org; licensed CC-BY-NC 2.5
From NewsBusters
During a panel discussion on Tuesday’s NBC Today about philanthropist Denise Rich renouncing her U.S. citizenship to reportedly avoid paying taxes, advertising executive Donny Deutsch used the incident to proclaim: “We are a country that is at class warfare now. It is reality. And this is the kind of thing that if I’m home watching, I go, screw you, get out of my country!”
NBC chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman had a similar reaction as she denounced the ultimate sin for liberals, the wealthy not paying enough taxes: “I think this is despicable. I have no – nothing but contempt for Denise Rich trying to escape taxes….Anyone who turns down an American citizenship, It’s crap….It’s crap, it’s absolute crap.”
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2012/07/10/donny-deutsch-rants-we-are-country-class-warfare-now#ixzz20HKWHD57
Apparently according to a NBC News story by Andrea Mitchell Chuck Schumer is STILL trying to get his Ex-Patriot Act passed although he is starting to run out of time before the election.
The “us” at Brock are all individuals who have suffered the impact, directly or indirectly, of the peculiar United States attitude toward its own nonresident nonaliens, and especially the perverse contortions of that attitude since 9/11.
That is going only by the Brock tag line. We attract some resident aliens, and various others as well.
The main “them” is the unsympathetic homelanders, above all those with power: the ones who manufacture a morass of so-called law; and the ones who enforce it, through taxation — the IRS, and through citizenship — Dept. of State.
A big part of our special agony is self-division. Each of us is also them, even after concluding the formalities of severing citizenship and filing the final paper. For those who stop short of that clear divorce, the duality is likely to fester, and to become ever more agonizing in times that will not even be “semi good.”
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In January the Isaac Brock Society commented on the question: Has your life been stolen from you by the IRS? That post generated a lot of comments. We are now one year into the IRS attack on U.S. citizens abroad.
In my post, directed to Joe Green, I commented that:
I venture to say that many U.S. citizens abroad are not even the same people they were a year ago.
Marketpinetree left the following comment:
Markpinetree
*This applies to me: ” I venture to say that many U.S. citizens abroad are not even the same people they were a year ago.” My life is now a nightmare and I still don´t know what I can/should do to regain some peace and a full night´s sleep. It started in 2009 when, by chance I learned abour FBARs and from that time on it has become more and more disturbed affecting me, my family and my work.
In what way(s) has your experience with the IRS changed the kind of person you are? Do your friends recognize you?
Mark Steyn wrote the following article on U.S. citizenship taxation and Denise Rich in the National Review Online-
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/306587/re-re-goodbye-and-good-luck-mark-steyn
Here is another one in what is clearly a coordinated attack. There are no comments yet on this, so those who are inclined should get over there.
Gov. O’Malley: Romney ‘bet against America’ with offshore holdings – The Hill's Video http://t.co/NAUdRtRt – So would I with Obama as pres
— U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) July 9, 2012
